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The Fires of Coventry

Author : Rick Shelley
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1936535440
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Fires of Coventry written by Rick Shelley and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coventry. One of the founding worlds of the Second Commonwealth. It lies just eight light years away from the Commonwealth’s capital world, Buckingham, but it’s mostly been ignored during the Federation War. No longer. The Federation has its sights set on taking Coventry by any means necessary. Their first wave of attacking troops have set Coventry aflame in an effort to force out the population and keep local resistance at bay as they establish a base for attacking the heart of the Commonwealth. Coventry is Reggie Bailey’s home. Reggie isn’t a Royal Marine. He’s a family man, a father of three. But he has to put it all aside and join his brethren to fight the fires that threaten his world. It’s up to the home guard to keep the Federation at bay long enough for reinforcements to arrive. To Sergeant David Spencer of the Commonwealth’s Royal Marines, the scorched earth assault on Coventry is a challenge. But he’s trained, skilled, armed, ready. When the unexpected orders to go to Coventry arrive, there’s no question that David and his men are up to the task, but there’s every question if they can arrive in time and fight their way through the fires of Coventry before it’s too late for Reggie and his family. War hits home as Rick Shelley’s Federation War trilogy continues. PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR: "Rick Shelley was a soldier at heart, and his books were written from the heart. They carry the real feel of the sweat, blood, and camaraderie of those on the front lines." --Jack Campbell, author of the bestselling Lost Fleet series

Fire in Coventry

Author : Stephen Verney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (212 download)

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Download or read book Fire in Coventry written by Stephen Verney and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Incident Closed"

Author : Phil Consadine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873361030
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book "Incident Closed" written by Phil Consadine and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coventry

Author : Frederick Taylor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1632861984
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Frederick Taylor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Luftwaffe's air raid on Coventry, England on the night of November 14, 1940 represented a new kind of air warfare. Aimed primarily at obliterating all aspects of city life, it was systematic, thorough, unconnected to any immediate military goal, and indifferent to civilian casualties. In a single night, roughly two-thirds of the city's buildings were damaged or destroyed as the bombers laid waste to legitimate industrial targets and civilian structures alike. The old St. Michael's Cathedral, a 14th century Gothic structure that burned to the ground that night, still stands in ruins today as a testament to the city's destruction during the raid. Pragmatic British government propagandists would exploit Coventry's perceived status as a "historic town," playing down the city's industrial reputation. This would prove to be a powerful tool, and, as Frederick Taylor shows, was instrumental in tipping public opinion in the then-neutral United States away from isolationism and in favor of help for Britain. But the bombing would also set a dangerous and destructive precedent as Allied air forces would study the Germans' methods in the attack and ultimately employ similar tactics in their equally ruthless and destructive attacks on German cities, eventually leading to the bombing of Hamburg in 1943 and Dresden in 1945 that killed hundreds of thousands, mostly civilians. On the 75th anniversary of the Coventry bombing, acclaimed historian Frederick Taylor brilliantly narrates this momentous act and analyzes its impact on World War II and the moral quandaries it still engenders about the nature of warfare.

Fire in Coventry

Author : Stephen Edmund VERNEY (Bishop of Repton.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Fire in Coventry written by Stephen Edmund VERNEY (Bishop of Repton.) and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coventry

Author : Tim Myers
Publisher : Tim Myers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Tim Myers and published by Tim Myers. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author and Agatha Award Nominee! Abraham Cole is the mayor and handyman for Coventry, North Carolina, a small town in the mountains. When he isn’t fixing doors and painting porches, he spends his days holding the town he loves together. From dealing with a runaway parade float to helping find a missing trash-man sculptor to a boy in town who needs a father-figure in his life, Abraham’s life is always full of surprises

The Story of Coventry

Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956631
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Story of Coventry written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry’s heritage through records, architectural developments and anecdotes, it reveals a fascinating and much misunderstood city, whose history is often overshadowed by its bombing during the Second World War. Peter Walters, well known for his numerous newspaper features and active role in local heritage, shows that there is a great deal more to the history of Coventry than first meets the eye. This beautifully illustrated text will delight both residents and visitors alike.

City of Coventry Fire Brigade

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book City of Coventry Fire Brigade written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Blitz and its Legacy

Author : Peter J. Larkham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351893890
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Blitz and its Legacy written by Peter J. Larkham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Triggered in part by contemporary experiences in the Balkans, the Middle East and elsewhere, there has been a rise in interest in the blitz and the subsequent reconstruction of cities, especially as many of the buildings and areas rebuilt after the Second World War are now facing demolition and reconstruction in their turn. Drawing together leading scholars and new researchers from across the fields of planning, history, architecture and geography, this volume presents an historical and cultural commentary on the immediate and longer-term impacts of wartime destruction. The book's contents in 14 chapters cover the spread of themes from experiencing the war to reconstruction and its experiences; and although many chapters draw upon the UK experience, there is deliberate inclusion of some material from mainland Europe and Japan to emphasise that the experiences, processes and products are not London-specific. A comparative book tracing destruction to reconstruction is a relative rarity, and yet of the utmost importance in possessing wider relevance to post-disaster reconstructions. The Blitz and Its Legacy is a fascinating volume which includes war experiences of destruction, architecture, urban design, the political process of planning and reconstruction, and also popular perceptions of rebuilding. Its findings provide very timely lessons which highlight the value of learning from historical precedent.

Coventry's Blitz

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445650002
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Coventry's Blitz written by David McGrory and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the blitz that blighted Coventry during the Second World War, commemorating its 75th anniversary.

Coventry Under Fire, an Impression of the Great Raids on Coventry in 1940 and 1941

Author : Edwin Watts Chubb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Coventry Under Fire, an Impression of the Great Raids on Coventry in 1940 and 1941 written by Edwin Watts Chubb and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Coventry

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717435
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

The Little History of Coventry

Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992816
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book The Little History of Coventry written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little History Of Coventry packs into its pages the colour and incident of a thousand years, telling the story of a city that has perhaps been overlooked by mainstream historians, but has often been at the heart of this country's great events. From the testing ground of the saintly Godiva to fourteenth-century boom town, from Second World War Blitz victim to the next UK City of Culture, Coventry has always been an inventive place with an unerring ability to bounce back from misfortune and make its mark. This is a truly eye-opening journey through the events and characters that have shaped its story and made the city one of England's hidden jewels.

A History of Coventry

Author : David McGrory
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750997664
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book A History of Coventry written by David McGrory and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2022-02-24 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, well known as the writer of more books on the city than anyone, explores Coventry's history from Roman times through Earl Leofric, Godiva and the Norman castle, to monastic houses, including St Mary's priory. Coventry has a rich medieval heritage, and rose to power in the Wars of the Roses, when the royal court moved there. Major themes in the city's history are discussed, through previously unknown source material, covering the Siege and Civil War, education, health, the church, crime and punishment, and industries from medieval weaving to modern car-building.

Ruined and Rebuilt

Author : Richard Thomas Howard
Publisher : Coventry Peace and Reconciliation
ISBN 13 : 9781871281545
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Ruined and Rebuilt written by Richard Thomas Howard and published by Coventry Peace and Reconciliation. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Argentine Perspectives on the Falklands War

Author : Nicholas van der Bijl
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1636241654
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Argentine Perspectives on the Falklands War written by Nicholas van der Bijl and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2023-09-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new assessment of the Falklands War from the Argentine perspective. In 1982, the United Kingdom and Argentina fought a war over an historical disagreement over the colonial “ownership” or rights over the Falkland Islands. Within months of the Argentinian defeat, General Edgardo Calvi, then the Argentine Head of the Army Joint Chief of Staff, was instructed to undertake a wide-ranging and formal inquiry to investigate the performance of the Argentine Army during the Falklands. Calvi concluded that while the Army had the motivation, it lacked the organization, equipment, training, and ability to oppose an army capable of operating in a variety of environments. The war exposed political, military, and public weaknesses in a period of considerable internal unrest during the seven years of the Dirty War. Several senior officers who fought in the Falklands were imprisoned for offenses committed during the Dirty War. Secrecy and political disagreements isolated the Service chiefs of staff from the logistic and operational planning. This book tells the story of the Falklands War from the Argentine Army perspective.

The Meon Hill Murder, 1945

Author : M J Trow
Publisher : Pen and Sword True Crime
ISBN 13 : 1399066641
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Meon Hill Murder, 1945 written by M J Trow and published by Pen and Sword True Crime. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the closing months of the Second World War, an old hedger was found bludgeoned and hacked to death in a Warwickshire field. His name was Charles Walton and the place was the little village of Lower Quinton, under the shadow of Meon Hill. They called in the local CID; they called in Scotland Yard; they interviewed hundreds of people; they asked thousands of questions. But somebody wasn’t talking. The whole village was silent, as if someone had drawn down a blind. After the case was scaled down, the rumors remained. Was Meon Hill the center of a witches’ coven? And was old Charlie Walton, with his ability to talk to birds and toads and his magic watch, a witch himself? For eighty years, the supernatural has hovered over the murder of Charles Walton, with vague, haunted memories of secret rites and black dogs. Even the dead man’s grave has vanished. Rumor has been piled on innuendo, adding to the excesses of writers determined to make a supernatural mystery out of a very local tragedy, until the dead man himself has disappeared into a morass of hocus pocus. This is the first book to get past the nonsense, accessing original police files that say precisely nothing about witchcraft. Analyzing the facts from the time and removing the ever-more ludicrous layers of fiction, it gets as near to solving the mystery as we are ever likely to.